Feb 21^st

W Woodruff prayed and called upon the Lord to pour
out his spirit upon us & give us the gifts of the Holy Ghost
to Bless and preserve all Israel who would keep the comma-
ndments of God & to curse & destroy our enemies who would
not repent but seek our destruction

We sung this Earth was once a Garden Place

Erastus Snow spoke said he felt rather stupid but he had
a great desire to enjoy the Holy spirit. He talked as stupid
as he felt, and I thought rather Quenched the spirit, but he
prayed and asked for many things which were good

O Pratt spoke and said that as Brother Hyde first remarked
that in attempting to pray this morning his tongue was all
doubled up and seemed hard work to speak O Pratt said that
it made him think of Brother Whimer before he saw the
Angels he had to struggle hard with the powers of darkness
and in one instance the Devel appeared in the form of a
personage and he had to contend with that person & overcome
him, then an angel of God appeared to them Joseph said that
Moses was visited by the Devil and He said to Moses son of
Man worship thou me He told the Devil that He was a son of
God and he would not worship him soon the Lord appeared to him [Moses 1:12-13]

C. C. Rich recommended that no one speak unless he had
the spirit of God but to pray then we would have a good meeting
several ingaged in the conversation.

O. Pratt said there is one thing I think would be of advan-
tage to us in prair the Lord has said that whare two or
three agree as touching any thing it shall be given you He
said we should cast in our minds what the spirit would
wish us to ask for, then we should agree and all ask for the
same thing and exercise all the faith we could upon that
one thing, now if we asked for a hundred things & all difer[ent]
it does not seem as likely to be answered as though iwe askd
for a few things the Nephites when Jesus appeared to them
asked for the Holy Ghost and it was given them [3 Nephi 19:6-13]

O Hyde said that He must confess that he was more
stupid & dull than He wished to be he thought it was in
consequence of going without food & tobaco, which he
had been in the habit of useing. He said if we get the spirit
of the Lord & pray in the spirit we shall be agreed

W. Woodruff spoke & said that we were living in an impo-
rtant eria & that God required much at our hand as the Quorum
of the Twelve Apostle, the Heavens were full of Judgment for
the wicked & Blessings for the righteous, and the Lord has said
that He would be inquired off theby the House of Israel to do thoses
Blessings for them we should be united in asking for what we
want & we should go before God & ask him to stay our Enemies
& hold them that they shall have no power over us we may

Feb 21st W Woodruff prayed and called upon the Lord to pour out his spirit upon us & give us the gifts of the Holy Ghost to Bless and preserve all Israel who would keep the commandments of God & to curse & destroy our Enemies who would not repent but seek our destruction

We sung this Earth was once a Garden Place

Erastus Snow spoke said he felt rather stupid but he had a great desire to enjoy the Holy spirit. He talked as stupid as he felt, and I thought rather Quenched the spirit, but he prayed and asked for many things which were good

O Pratt spoke and said that as Brother Hyde first remarked that in attempting to pray this morning his tongue was all doubled up and seemed hard work to speak O Pratt said that it made him think of Brother Whitmer before he saw the Angels he had to struggle hard with the powers of darkness and in one instance the Devel appeared in the form of a personage and he had to contend with that person & overcome him, then an angel of God appeared to them Joseph said that Moses was visited by the Devil and He said to Moses son of Man worship thou me He told the Devil that He was a son of God and he would not worship him soon the Lord appeared to him

C. C. Rich recommended that no one speak unless he had the spirit of God but to pray then we would have a good meeting several ingaged in the conversation.

O. Pratt said there is one thing I think would be of advantage to us in prair the Lord has said that whare two or three agree as touching any thing it shall be given you He said we should cast in our minds what the spirit would wish us to ask for, then we should agree and all ask for the same thing and exercise all the faith we could upon that one thing, now if we asked for a hundred things & all diferent it does not seem as likely to be answered as though we asked for a few things the Nephites when Jesus appeared to them asked for the Holy Ghost and it was given them

O Hyde said the He must confess that he was more stupid & dull than He wished to be he thought it was in consequence of going without food & tobaco, which he had been in the habit of useing. He said if we get the spirit of the Lord & pray in the spirit we shall be agreed

W. Woodruff spoke & said that we were living in an important eria & that God required much at our hand as the Quorum of the Twelve Apostle, the Heavens were full of Judgment for the wicked & Blessings for the Righteous, and the Lord has said that He would be inquired offby the House of Israel to [illegible] Blessings for them we should be united in asking for what we want & we should go before God & ask him to stay our Enemies & hold them that they shall have no power over us we may